Passportization, Diminished Citizenship Rights, and the Donbas Vote in Russia's 2021 Duma Elections

Abstract: Referring in this paper to the extraterritorial naturalization of Donbas residents en masse, passportization is one of Russia’s preeminent foreign policy tools to deepen the potentially explosive deadlock in the implementation of the Minsk Agreements. In this deadlock, passportization can serve as a tool of ambiguous Russian extraterritorial governance over the Donbas while keeping violence at a comparatively low level, or as a tool to justify a full-scale Russian military intervention to "protect" its citizens from, for example, a purported "genocide." Russia does not necessarily want more citizens or territories: Russia’s ultimate goals are far-ranging security guarantees to prevent Ukraine’s further integration or membership with NATO. Passportization is one of the instruments to achieve this overarching goal. Passportization of residents of the non-government-controlled areas of the Donbas does not endow these Ukrainians with full membership of the Russian state; they are "seco

Angaben zum Objekt

• Standort: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Umfang: Online-Ressource, 25 S.
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anmerkungen: Veröffentlichungsversion ; begutachtet

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Politik

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wo): Mannheim
• (wer): SSOAR, GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V.
• (wann): 2022
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wo): Cambridge
• (wer): Harvard University, Ukrainian Research Institute, Temerty Contemporary Ukraine Program
• (wann): 2022
• Urheber: Burkhardt, Fabian ; Rabinovych, Maryna ; Wittke, Cindy ; Bescotti, Elia
• Beteiligte Personen und Organisationen: Harvard University, Ukrainian Research Institute, Temerty Contemporary Ukraine Program

Weitere Informationen

• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-76864-5
• Rechteinformation: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 14.08.2025, 10:55 MESZ